Word: makoto
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...better to visit America, some foreigners say, than to live here. Electrical Engineer Makoto Takayasu, 35, expected to go back to Japan with some savings after working on a research grant at Purdue University. But the decline of the dollar has just about wiped out what he set aside. "My wife is encouraging me to spend every dollar we have before we return to Japan," he laments. "She's not far from right. The dollar is not worth anything any more...
...whose origins in northern Japan are obscure, first burst upon the public consciousness as a prewar activist in right-wing causes. He has been jailed three times for a total of seven years. He was imprisoned by the Japanese for involvement in the 1936 assassination of former Premier Makoto Saito and again by the Americans as a Class-A war-crimes suspect (he was later released without trial). He became wealthy during World War II by supplying the Japanese navy and, by his account, "bringing home truckloads of diamonds and platinum" from territories occupied by Japan. After...
...Makoto Ikeue was 20 when he wrote that poem. Shortly afterward, he killed himself in the lovers' lane where he had often met the girl he made pregnant. Before Ikeue's suicide, the girl had an abortion because her family refused to let her marry him. Why? Because Ikeue was a buraku-min, one of some 3,000,000 "hamlet people," a caste-like group whose members have suffered economic and social discrimination for 15 generations in Japan...
...banker puts it. The fact that Mitsubishi's wages pump $1.2 million annually into the local economy, and that the company expects to increase production in San Angelo 50% by 1972, undoubtedly helps. Some final signs of acceptance: the San Angelo Country Club this month made Plant President Makoto Kuroiwa a member-and he now asks the Texans to call him Mike...
Beheiren's founder is Novelist Makoto Oda, 38. He launched the new wave...